FB POUCH - SHERLOCK PLUG IN

Click on the icon to download the Sherlock plug in for the FB Pouch. [The FB Pouch is a searchable Q&A base culled from the questions asked on the English-language FB list. Will most questions concern FBII, lots of material also applies to FB^3]. This Sherlock plug-in works with systems prior to OS X only.

The Window Maker 1.4.6 (TWM), FutureBasic interface builder.
TWM allows the FutureBasic programmer to graphically create windows and controls, generating build window functions in a working shell in fully editable, FB3 carbon code. This shell can be used as the basis for a new project or its functions copied into an existing program.
Requirements: FutureBasic 3.7 or later, OS X 10.2 or later.

Further Information: here.

ScriptEase breaks the built-in Simple Scripts 255-char barrier and manages your libraries of functions or your favorite shells. Not only ScriptEase deals with the existing scripts handled by the FB^3 built-in mechanism, but it allows you to create or edit scripts of any size and organize them as you see fit. Icing on that cake, ScriptEase is faster than Simple Scripts!
A must-have productivity tool for all FutureBasic programmers at one click away here.

Code Styler 1.3.8 prettifies and harmonizes your source code files. This Carbon application is built with the great Appearance runtime here. For the PPC version only click here.

QuiXample 1.7.4 is a plain-text searching tool designed as an FB^3 plug-in Editor that features an extremely fast engine. You can perform case sensitive searches on whole or partial words skipping remarks if you wish. You can store up to 20 favorite folders to scan at any time. The resulting list can be sorted by name, modification date, path or number of matching occurrences. You can select a file in the list to open it in the Editor, reveal it in the Finder, copy it to the Clipboard, Style it with Code Styler or simply label it. Among other new features in this latest release, QuiXample allows you to search directly into the Apple's documentation included the Apple headers provided you have installed on your HD the Developer tools that come along with the installation CD of OS X system software. QuiXample allows now to search for FB keywords in the documentation.

Benchmark this!

On a G4/400 in Mac OS 9, searching for the word "window" in the 2523 files located inside the Examples folder takes 4 seconds... 1165 files are loaded in memory and searched, the resulting list has 766 items. In OS X the same search is performed in around 40 ticks!!!
Yes, you read it that well...

Michele Neri has led a few projects for the localization team. Here are some results of this work. Those tools may help you in the writing of your own source code.

LiteralGlot is a little tool that allows to extract the literal strings from code source file. This tool is pretty useful for our localization needs allowing us to quickly translate all the FB^3 header files. You can adapt the source to your own needs.

ESP is an editor plug-in that tries to guess what you intend to write in your source code and proposes you a possible completion. It recognizes the FB keywords, the structures, the constants and the Toolbox calls including their parameters.

CSP is an editor plug-in for FB^3. It is a real spell checker available only in English at the moment.

Those tools are downloadable from the new italian web site maintained by Michele.
Web: www.tevac.com/futurebasic/

Convert+. Starting with the LiteralGlot engine, Jacques Orliac has written a little program whose goal is to finish the translation process of FBII code source file. It is particularly useful for big projects..
Convert+ can be downloaded from this site click here.

CtoFB3 is a tool still in a development stage. This software is designed to convert C code to FB^3. Some FB/C programmers already use it.

Web: users.starpower.net/mkluskens/

FBII^3 Converter 1.1 by Robin Graig. FutureBASIC^3 from STAZ Software is yet another quantum leap in BASIC programming. However, it comes with a price: several changes mean conversion of your projects from FBII to FB^3 can involve many hours of tedious repetitive work. While FB^3 itself does several conversions, numerous others remain to be done by hand.
Now with FBII^3 Converter, automatically do many of these manual changes. Features include:
- Filtering files to be converted: all files, or any or all of these only: .MAIN, .INCL, .HEAD
- Remove leading spaces and excess spaces in LOCAL FN definitions
- Remove addresses of XREF and XREF@ arrays from DIM statements
- Remove function parameters from DIM statements
- Convert DIM to DIM @ for variables that must be in memory not registers
- Mark calls to functions with >8 parameters that are know to have problems (e.g., contain complex expressions after the 8th item, contain strings or double-precision floating point numbers)
- Protect memory from calls to functions with >10 parameters
- Convert erroneous err = FN toolbox(...) to the correct CALL toolbox(...): err = FN MEMERROR
Prix: US$ 17

Web: www.thoughtware.com

FutureFrames is an advanced window and control design application for FutureBasic developers. FutureFrames allows programmers to design new windows with buttons, scrollbars, edit fields, etc. using traditional Macintosh drawing tools and technology. Drag-n-drop new controls onto a window. Resize, move , duplicate, align, etc. When finished designing, simply select the "Build Source" menu item and FutureFrames will generate all of the FutureBasic code needed to create your new window, without using global variables or resource files. Save hours of development time using FutureFrames for Macintosh (PowerPC only). Supports FutureBasic 2-3.
Price: US$ 19.99

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Web: www.morrisonsoftdesign.com